Aerospace Corp. engineers test MEMS switches on orbiting 'picosats.'

AEROSPACE CORP. engineers have established contact with two tiny "picosats" after more than a week of scrambling to communicate with its carrier-satellite. The half-pound spacecraft -- the smallest ever launched, according to Aerospace Corp. -- are tethered with a cable that includes thin gold...

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